Paying the cost of things. Some possible solution.

Somebody gave me this link  to an article about the British public footing the bill for the wedding of Princess Eugenie, 9th in line to the British throne. She’s one of the daughters of Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson. As far as I know, she and her sister are mostly famous for wearing awful but expensive outfits to royal weddings.

When I saw the link I was reminded of a thought that came to me in the middle of the night, possibly provoked by thinking about Arethe Franklin singing at President Obama’s inauguration. It was all about public celebrations. The Americans really go to town on their presidential inaugurations, celebrating the election of a new president. In the UK the new leader of the government gets to meet the queen and we have the state opening of parliament but it doesn’t lead to millions of people lining the streets of the capital to see what’s going on. They do turn out though for royal weddings, funerals and, of course, coronations.

So it struck me that what we should do is rotate the head of state job ebetween the members of the royal family. Each one, once they reached a certain aga, should be king/queen for a four year period. That way we could have a coronation every four years with lots of ceremony and we could get rid of the problem of Charles hanging around until he is 70 without the least sign of his becoming king.

That should work!

Except of course that someone would have to foot the bill!

Of course, another solution is just to pension them all off.

Here are a few things I found in the local newspaper, the proper, printed version, not an online job:- 

One of the odd things about the accident at the cincert last weeked is that people trying to claim compemsation might have difficulty. It was afree concert apparntly. No tickets. So as well as a medical report, claimants need to prove they were there!!!! That sounds like somebody trying to duck out of responsibility to me.

The university of Vigo is very proud to be “a las puertas” of the top 500 universities in the world, according to some kind of ranking done by Shanghai. Was the newspaper being ironic in their reporting of this? Somehow I doubt it.

The top ten universities in the world are as follows:-

1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. University of Cambridge UK
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. University of California, Berkeley
6. Princeton University
7. University of Oxford UK 8. Columbia University
9. California Institute of Technology
10. University of Chicago.

Are there so many American universities in the list simply because they have such a lot. Itks nice to see Oxbridge still there.

Now, how does a “leyenda del pop-rock español” have a name like Enrique Bunbury? Goodness knows! He had a concert the other day in Pontevedra! And has anybody even heard of him?

And now, another oddity on the food fad front has come to my notice. The trendy people of Brooklyn are in crisis because there is a shortage of oat milk. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. I can just about get my head around “milk” made by grinding up nuts such as almonds but I didn’t know you could do it with cereals as well. And I can understand that some people have allergies and other health problems that mean that they need a substitute for cows’ milk. But the food faddists consume it because it’s the latest fashionable to add to your diet. Demand goes up! Supply can’t meet it! Crisis ensues!

First world problems! And finally, a little comment on Brexit that someone or other posted recently:

 “The irony of French-made blue passports that cannot be imported to the UK because a no-deal Brexit means that no trade agreement will be in place to allow the blue passports to enter the UK.” 

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